December 6
2003
- What we cannot speak of we must pass over in silence. ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
- selected by Snoyes
2004
- Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself. ~ Samuel Butler
- selected by Kalki
2005
- Love is made out of ecstasy and wonder;
Love is a poignant and accustomed pain.
It is a burst of Heaven-shaking thunder;
It is a linnet's fluting after rain.
~ Joyce Kilmer (born 6 December 1886)- proposed by Kalki
2006
- Never think that you're not good enough. A man should never think that. People will take you very much at your own reckoning. ~ Anthony Trollope ( (died 6 December 1882))
- proposed by UDScott
2007
- It is stern work, it is perilous work, to thrust your hand in the sun and pull out a spark of immortal flame to warm the hearts of men: but Prometheus, torn by the claws and beaks whose task is never done, would be tortured another eternity to go stealing fire again. ~ Joyce Kilmer (date of birth)
- proposed by Kalki
2008
- The Science of Language has taught us that there is order and wisdom in all languages, and even the most degraded jargons contain the ruins of former greatness and beauty. The Science of Religion, I hope, will produce a similar change in our views of barbarous forms of faith and worship. ~ Max Müller
- proposed by Zarbon
2009
Suggestions
There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art. ~ Anthony Trollope in Barchester Towers (date of death)- 3 ~ UDScott 23:09, 28 November 2005 (UTC)
- 2 InvisibleSun 07:29, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
- 1 Zarbon 15:39, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
- 3 Kalki 01:44, 29 November 2008 (UTC)
- 3 Lyle 17:49, 5 December 2008 (UTC)
- 2 Antiquary 20:00, 5 December 2008 (UTC)
----
Book love... is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures. ~ Anthony Trollope (date of death)
- 3 ~ UDScott 23:09, 28 November 2005 (UTC)
- 2 InvisibleSun 07:29, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
- 1 Zarbon 15:39, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
- 2 Kalki 01:44, 29 November 2008 (UTC)
- 2 Lyle 17:49, 5 December 2008 (UTC)
----
They shall not live who have not tasted death. They only sing who are struck dumb by God. ~ Joyce Kilmer (date of birth)
- 3 Kalki 21:10, 5 December 2005 (UTC)
- 3 InvisibleSun 07:29, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
- 2 Zarbon 15:39, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
- 3 Lyle 17:49, 5 December 2008 (UTC)
- 2 Antiquary 20:00, 5 December 2008 (UTC)
----
Is Freedom only a Will-o'-the-wisp
To cheat a poet's eye?
Be it phantom or fact, it's a noble cause
In which to sing and to die!
~ Joyce Kilmer ~ (date of birth)
- 2 Kalki 15:34, 5 December 2008 (UTC)
* 3 Kalki 21:10, 5 December 2005 (UTC)I will probably again rank this a 3 or even a 4 eventually, but I don't feel inclined to use this one for this year. - 3 InvisibleSun 07:29, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
- 4 Zarbon 15:39, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
- 3 Lyle 17:49, 5 December 2008 (UTC)
- 2 Antiquary 20:00, 5 December 2008 (UTC)
----
The difficulties which trouble us, have troubled the hearts and minds of men as far back as we can trace the beginnings of religious life. The great problems touching the relation of the Finite to the Infinite, of the human mind as the recipient, and of the Divine Spirit as the source of truth, are old problems indeed; and while watching their appearance in different countries, and their treatment under varying circumstances, we shall be able, I believe, to profit ourselves, both by the errors which others committed before us, and by the truth which they discovered. We shall know the rocks that threaten every religion in this changing and shifting world of ours, and having watched many a storm of religious controversy and many a shipwreck in distant seas, we shall face with greater calmness and prudence the troubled waters at home. ~ Max Müller
- 3 Zarbon 23:32, 27 October 2008 (UTC)
- 2 Kalki 01:44, 29 November 2008 (UTC)
- 2 Lyle 17:49, 5 December 2008 (UTC)
- 2 Antiquary 20:00, 5 December 2008 (UTC)
- 2 InvisibleSun 23:21, 5 December 2008 (UTC)
----
Whenever we can trace back a religion to its first beginnings, we find it free from many of the blemishes that offend us in its later phases. The founders of the ancient religions of the world, as far as we can judge, were minds of a high stamp, full of noble aspirations, yearning for truth, devoted to the welfare of their neighbors, examples of purity and unselfishness. What they desired to found upon earth was but seldom realized, and their sayings, if preserved in their original form, offer often a strange contrast to the practice of those who profess to be their disciples. ~ Max Müller
- 4 Kalki 01:44, 29 November 2008 (UTC)
- 2 Zarbon 22:07, 29 November 2008 (UTC)
- 2 Lyle 17:49, 5 December 2008 (UTC)
- 3 Antiquary 20:00, 5 December 2008 (UTC)
- 3 InvisibleSun 23:21, 5 December 2008 (UTC)
----